| Contents |
Prologue: 1931, a Mozart year -- Der deutsche Mozart -- Mozart and the Freemasons: a Nazi problem -- Aryanising Mozart -- The Mozart diaspora -- "True humanitarian musician": exiled writers on Mozart -- Mozart performance and propaganda: from the Anschluss to the end of World War II -- Mozart serves German imperialism -- Epilogue: Nazi legacies -- Appendix I: Address by Baldur von Schirach, Vienna, 28 November 1941 ; Appendix II: Address by Joseph Goebbels, Vienna, 4 December 1941. |
| Abstract |
Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart?s humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer?s music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this revelatory book, the author draws on period articles, diaries, speeches, and other archival materials to provide a new understanding of how the Nazis shamelessly manipulated Mozart for their own political advantage. The book also explores the continued Jewish veneration of the composer during this period while also highlighting some of the disturbing legacies of Mozart reception that resulted from Nazi appropriation of his work. Augmented by rare contemporary illustrations, Mozart and the Nazis will be widely welcomed by readers with interests in music, German history, Holocaust studies, propaganda, and politics in the twentieth century. |
